Martinsburg daily gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1887-1887, 1887-04-12
COERCION In IRELAND.
STRENGTH OF THE MOVEMENT
AGAINST ITS ADOPTION.

The Introduction of the Bill Likely to
Prove the Greatest Service Yet Rendered
to the Irish Cause.-The Queen Criticised.
Various Other Foreign News.
BosToN, April H. y. J. Clancy cables to
the Herald from Dublin as follows: slVhen
| left London on Thursday evening, the agi-
tation against the coercion bill was in full
swing. Up to that time but one meeting in
England had been held in favor of the bill,
and about three hundred against it, and the
prospect was that this proportion would be
maintained to the end. The demands from
speakers were so numerous that it was inn
possible to comply with one-fourth Of them,
and those demands came from not merely
one or two districts of Great Britain but
from every quarter of the island. Many of
the requests were peculiar and suggestive,
being for Irish members only, who have been
in Jail. The meetings moreover are very
large and enshus astic, and altogether the
agitation promises ID be more like the great
Bull yarian agitation of 1879 than any one
that since o9,urred in that country.
1T is most certain that while the Liberal
Uniolist leaders are chiefly to blame, not
only for the introduction of the coercion,
but a 50 for its most drastic provisio IS very
many if not the m ajority of the rank and file
If the party are simply quaktng in their
sho7s at the certain result of their action, a
result. clearly foreshadowed by the whole sale
passing yer Of their principal supporters in
the4cou lt.y to the Gladsto1san camp. The
coercion hi, therefore, which was intended
finally to trample out the Hon. Rule move
ment both in England and in Leland, has
really, b zen and will be the greatest service
VI rend red TO the Irish cause Nothing
else coal have so efFectually conducted to
the rapid conversion to H me Rule views of
the wavering section of the Liberals, who %
aid alone is waltin to the rapil and conf
pete success Of the G.a is.oleana nolicy.
''Thc apo. ltmsqt of King Hartman to the
post of under secretary for Ireland in parlia-
nent, if it has really been made, will be
another powerful factor working in the same
Erection Such al appointment completely
iamns the government as mere partisan
instrum int of the landlords all the Orange
men, anil that, too of the mos5 reckless and
diSreputable section OF the landlord party
King Hartman be "a as Home Ruler. lie
to parliament from an Irish constituency
I'm Ter that title, and he remain I'd one, in APP
pearance, at least, until the electors OF Sligo,
having found he was more of landlord
than a Home Ruler, turned him out ia
favor of Sexton When he could hope for
no more from the Nationalist be became an
Orangeman, and since then he has figured in
tbat capacity without doing any service to
himself or his new foun allies. His charac-
ter as landlord may be ju iged from the
fact that last winter his rents were reduced
by the land colrts by about 80 per ce1t.
ITO set sncl a man over any department
of I.lsh aft als is 10 proclaim, in effect, that
the government simply exists for tae Ian 4
lord, aud not, as is pretended, for the unioa
and under the circumstances il is not won
defful that some liberal Uaionists are to-day
aghast at the possibility OF such an event.
Here III Ireland, the advice Of the editor
OF the Pill Mail G izette- given III
the lea ling Irish papers, to hold indignation
IN sting, all over the G III lsry next Sunday,
has crea53 ere 1t interest," anu will probably
be acted upon extensively. Ii those meet
ings are held, some Z lglish speakers will
speak at then and hsre, / may a id, that if
the bill passes several i ylish members will
come ovsr here a 1 ma - tns sort of speaeheS
which it is intsl lei to prevent ths Iris
members from III skin, la future. This, OF
q Ilrse, will introduce new and interesting
complication, wit posSole reSllts of thu
mo u Important G larac5ar. Meanwhile, sew
eral demon STATIONS are aarranga1 for next
week. among Others three in Ulster, at
which John Dillon is to speak on the new
md bill ~ ss4S